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Temporary Senior Data Science and Analysis Professional
Temporary Senior Data Science and Analysis Professional
Requisition Number: 66770
Location: Boulder Colorado
Employment Type: Temporary Staff
Schedule: Full Time
Posting Close Date: 20-Aug-2025
Date Posted:
Job Summary
The Temporary Senior Data Science and Analysis Professional reports to the Head of Analytics Programs in the Data & Analytics (D&A) division of the Office of Information Technology. This position is a temporary position responsible for supporting the D&A data visualization and reporting portfolio, providing expertise in data visualization strategies, performing data manipulation, and creating data products, reports and dashboards. A key function of this temporary position will be to support current efforts to enhance accessibility, migrate dashboards to improved data pipelines, and implement automation.
As a senior professional-level position, the incumbent is expected to apply deep understanding of theory and practice to define and solve problems of a significant scope and complexity, often with non-standard solutions. The incumbent is expected to perform work independently and serve as partner to other D&A team members. The incumbent may also be expected to communicate complex concepts to individuals outside of the Data & Analytics division. CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Who We Are
Vision:
- OIT will be valued by campus as a strategic, inclusive and innovative partner in advancing learning and discovery in order to enable CU Boulder to be a best-in-class public university.
- OIT enables campus priorities by providing high-value IT services and solutions.
- Trust, as a foundation for how we engage with one another and with campus partners, along with
- Passionate curiosity in how to better support the campus and our partner's while
- Fostering empowerment and authentic engagement among ourselves and
- Celebrating inclusivity that promotes a sense of belonging while acknowledging that each person is unique and valued.
- OIT will advance learning and discovery by delivering high-value reliable IT services and solutions that:
- Provide a fluid and adaptable academic and student experience
- Enable research competitiveness and
- Deliver core infrastructure and enterprise IT services for business efficiency.
What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be
Specific Analytics Focus Area Work
- Data Visualization & Business Intelligence.
- Collaborate with supervisory or technical leads to implement data visualization and business intelligence standard processes.
- Select and apply appropriate data visualization techniques to ensure valid and reliable data collection, and.
- Design and refine dashboards and data visualizations, including highly complex projects.
- Use expertise specifically related to CU Boulder institutional and survey data through data querying, manipulation and analysis; reporting on institutional data and survey data; data visualization; and applying principles of accessibility.
- With the support of supervisor, project lead, and/or D&A leadership, engage with relevant campus partners and the D&A leadership team to identify business requirements related to requests, projects and services.
- Identify, review, arrange, and collect data to meet project specifications and minimize the limitations of subsequent analyses and reports.
- Curate appropriate data sets to optimize sustainable analytics, reports, and/or data products.
- Recommend and use appropriate quantitative and qualitative methods (e.g. descriptive and exploratory data analysis, advanced statistical analysis, predictive modeling, causal and quasi-causal analysis, natural language processing, and/or survey methods) to meet campus partners' needs.
- Evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of data products, analyses, data models, reports and dashboards to ensure continuous improvement of the data services and products provided by D&A.
- Document code, analytic methods, data sources, and project specs and statuses in the appropriate repository (e.g., GitHub, Atlassian, etc).
- Through the completion of data requests, projects and identified problems:
- Evaluate data assets to understand how existing internal and external data can advise decision-making or improve processes.
- Maintain a data governance and security approach: use appropriate documentation, controls, levels of security, and approvals on data sets, reports, and other products.
- Collaborate with data engineers to request and improve data pipelines and create integrity checks that assure accuracy and completeness of data sets.
- Create, maintain, and automate accessible reports (e.g., written reports, data visualizations, and dashboards) that present and synthesize results for campus partners.
- Create data products (e.g., datasets, data dashboards, machine learning models) that meet campus partner needs.
- Fulfill ad hoc data requests for data sets, analysis, aggregation, and synthesis.
- Communicate analytic methods and results to campus partners, through reports, data products, emails, and/or presentations.
What You Should Know
- This is a full time, hybrid position that will primarily work remote. We expect this position to work 30-40 hours / week and anticipate the assignment lasting 6 months.
What We Can Offer
- The pay range is $40.00 - $45.00 per hour.
Benefits
Temporary positions at the University of Colorado are not benefits-eligible, however, all positions are eligible for paid sick leave.
Be Statements
Be challenged. Be unique. Be Boulder.
What We Require
- A bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in applied math, statistics, computer science, data science, social or natural sciences or related field. A combination of education and relevant experience as described below may be substituted for the degree on a year for year basis.
- 3 year(s) of professional experience which includes:
- Utilizing CU Boulder institutional and/or survey data to develop dashboards, data visualizations, and reports specific to CU Boulder decision-support needs and in compliance with CU Boulder accessibility and brand standards.
- Developing research questions and methodologies, curating data sets, conducting analyses, and building data tools and products, and using reproducible data analytics workflows.
- Proficiency in using SQL, Python, R, and/or SAS for data queries, data manipulation, and analysis.
- Proficiency in using Tableau or other data visualization tool for data visualization.
Special Instructions
To apply, please submit the following materials:
1. A current resume.
2. Optional: A cover letter that specifically tells us how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position.
We may request references at a later time.
Please apply by August 20, 2025, for consideration.
Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, please apply through CU Boulder Jobs.
In compliance with the Colorado Job Application Fairness Act, in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
To apply, visit https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Temporary-Senior-Data-Science-and-Analysis-Professional/66770
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